Profile of Charles Babcock

Editor at Large, Cloud Member Since: 11/15/2013
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Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for InformationWeek and author of Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, a McGraw-Hill book. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digital News, former software editor of Computerworld and former technology editor of Interactive Week. He is a graduate of Syracuse University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism. He joined the publication in 2003.

VMware Seeks Collaboration Dominance With Socialcast Buy

5/31/2011
It already leads the virtualized data center, now it's taking on the Microsoft/Citrix alliance with more end-user computing and cloud software.
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Military Finds Security In Virtualized Desktops

5/31/2011
The Defense Intelligence Agency and Air Force are working on a secure, mobile end user client, and they believe virtualization is the key to achieving it.
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IT As A Service Is The Future

5/26/2011
Software execs say software as a service has more domains to conquer, will gradually take over more of the IT infrastructure.
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Citrix Taps Open Stack For Building Private Clouds

5/25/2011
Project Olympus will launch before the end of the year to give enterprises a set of cloud software compatible with Rackspace and other OpenStack users.
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Aternity Upgrades App Performance Management

5/24/2011
Frontline Performance Intelligence Platform 5.0 reports what the end users see, not how well things are running in the data center.
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Software AG Buying In-Memory Management Supplier Terracotta

5/24/2011
In-memory systems are gaining popularity for their ability to scale up websites, applications running on server clusters, and apps in the cloud.
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RingCube Personalizes VMware, Citrix Virtual Desktops

5/24/2011
By piggybacking on the leading virtualization vendors, the company works to create individual virtualized desktop without driving up storage costs.
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Oracle Sued Over Alleged ERP Project Cost Overruns

5/23/2011
N.J.'s Montclair State claims the portal project intended to modernize business and academic processes is $20 million over the planned cost and lacked clear accounting.
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Tough Questions To Ask Cloud Service Providers

5/13/2011
Cloud SLAs warrant close scrutiny from enterprises planning a move to the cloud, a SunGard executive said at Interop.
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Rackspace Cloud Guru Says Service Trumps Technology

5/13/2011
Jonathan Bryce opens up about the Amazon outage, OpenStack, and how he's come to be a cloud veteran at age 29.
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Terremark VP Defines Attributes Of Enterprise Cloud Suppliers

5/11/2011
Comparing Amazon Web Services to a Terremark-like environment, Bill Lowry cited isolation and security as key enterprise needs in the cloud.
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Cloud Customers Must Understand Weak Points

5/11/2011
In discussing Amazon's three-day outage, cloud computing advocates said customers must do more homework before selecting a vendor.
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Microsoft: 'Incredible Economies Of Scale' Await Cloud Users

5/11/2011
A Windows Server instance costs between 5 cents and 96 cents an hour because Microsoft has been able to drive down operational expenses.
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Consumerization And Cloud: IT Isn't Keeping Up

5/11/2011
Citrix CEO in his Interop keynote envisions a policy of letting employees bring their own devices to work, and a world where IT's role is supporting, not controlling.
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Engine Yard Sees Ruby As Cloud Springboard

5/11/2011
Company executives tout the application platform provider's ability to quickly transfer customers out of the crashing Amazon cloud in April.
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Top Signs You Need NoSQL For Your Data

5/10/2011
When your relational database takes longer to process your data than to collect it, it's time to call in big data technology, said panelists at Interop.
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IT Must Play Central Role In Enterprise Innovation

5/10/2011
Panel of CIOs at Interop wrestles with transforming IT's role from protectors of the status quo to leaders in development of novel business solutions.
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Amazon SLAs Didn't Cover Major Outage

5/9/2011
Customers affected by the recent EC2 outage were compensated by Amazon, but not because the terms of the service level agreement required it.
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Dell Boomi Simplifies Integrating Java Apps With Cloud

5/9/2011
Latest version of AtomSphere allows Java enterprise apps to connect with external software as a service.
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Apple iOS Gets NoSQL System For Synchronizing Data

5/7/2011
Mobile Couchbase beta is available to iPhone and iPad developers as a free download for mobile device applications.
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Mashery Raises $11 Million For API Management

5/5/2011
OpenView Venture Partners, Formative Ventures, .406 Ventures, and Cisco Systems invested in the firm, which boasts Netflix, the New York Times, Best Buy, and others among its customers.
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PostgreSQL Adds Proximity Search

5/5/2011
The open source project has produced a general purpose proximity search for location-based queries and it should generate new applications.
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Red Hat Cloud Platform Challenges VMware, Microsoft

5/4/2011
The beta release of OpenShift uses Amazon as a platform for building interoperable cloud workloads.
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Oracle Donates Open Source Hudson To Eclipse Foundation

5/3/2011
Database giant suffers another open source upheaval, seeks to stabilize a strong development management project.
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VMware Cloud Foundry Suffers Service Outage

5/3/2011
As the beta development platform was recovering from a minor power supply problem, human error worsened the setback.
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Virtualized Desktops The Next IT Challenge

5/2/2011
As consumerization of IT takes hold and more employees want to bring their own computers to work, Interop 2011 explores the strategies for developing a standard virtualized desktop.
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